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universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
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Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The History of Middle Earth, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of the Lord of the Rings

Enchanted PilgrimageNovel

Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1975

About quests.

“A scholar at a remote university stumbles onto a manuscript that hints at forgotten secrets buried in the Wasteland, a blighted region where magic and monsters still linger at the edge of an otherwise rational world.”
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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

Circle of MagicUniverse

universe11 books1997

About coming of age and magic schools.

“Magic here does not thunder from a staff or wait in a dusty grimoire.”
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Start with Sandry's Book →

includes Circle of Magic (Tamora Pierce), The Circle Opens, The Circle Reforged

Flightless FalconNovel

Mickey Zucker Reichertstandalone novel2000

Sword and sorcery, about quests and survival.

“Tamison had been a miner until the cave-in which killed his brother and father, and left him trapped behind a wall of rubble, cut off from light and life for what seemed like eternity.”
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Guardians of Ga'hooleSeries

series17 books2003

Epic fantasy, about war and coming of age.

“Apart from the main series, there are a few more books and spin-offs set in the same universe.”
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Start with The Capture →

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